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Today's episode is all about understanding the belief systems that we have of ourselves including how they were created in the first place and what we can do to change them. Specifically, we will be looking at the work of the author, Carol S. Dweck, who wrote, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Click here for the entire show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Sign up for our next Sky Fit Challange Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset In her book, Mindset, she dives deep into the two mindsets we have - fixed and growth. In a nutshell, people who have a fixed mindset believe they can never change and this is how they'll be forever vs. those with a growth mindset that believe intelligence is something that can be learned, cultivated, and developed. However, we don't have just one type of mindset for the rest of our lives either. Depending on where we are in life and what the topic is about, we could either have a fi

Say 'hello' to Nicolette Hahn Niman from BN Ranch and author of Defending Beef and Righteous Pork Chop, who talks about sustainable cattle farming: Rob starts the podcast by answering a listener’s question about how to put on muscle mass when you are training for endurance. Then, he and Nicolette get into the myths around cattle farming and why it has gotten such a bad rap. She shows the benefits of raising cattle in the proper manner as well as discusses the differences between factory and sustainable farming. Click here for the original show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Sign up for either the Transition or next Sky Fit Challange Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset

When it comes to your body, you're either in the driver's seat or you're in the trunk. Unfortunately, most people are literally in the trunk; in other words, they're in the dark, they don't know what's happening, and you don't know how you got there. If you're in the driver's seat, you've got access to feedback and you're listening, look, and learning as you're going along. If you arrive someplace you don't like, you're able to change it because you understand how you got there. - Erin Burch Click here for the entire show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Sign up for either the Transition or next Sky Fit Challange Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset For today's podcast, I had an amazing discussion with the Founder of The Burch Method, Creator of Core Container™ System, and proclaimed, Body Whisperer by her clients, Erin Burch. With 38 years of physical therapy, yoga, Erin uses an inside-out approach that has not onl

Do you find simple tasks like picking up something off of the floor or twisting to reach something behind you painful and straining? When we think of back pain, we usually imagine someone suddenly throwing out their back. But back pain can happen day to day and even the simplest of movements can cause it to happen. Recently, Devon experienced a horrible back muscle spasm the day after a dance class and we had the idea to talk about back spasms on the show. Click here for the original show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset

If you're a person who lives a sedentary life, your health might be good until you're 45. If you ignore physical exercise until you're 45, your health can begin to drastically drop after 45 but it is preventative and you might just have to work a bit harder. It's all about mindset because many of us think we cannot do something such as go on a hike and have the attitude of 'I'm too this; I'm too that,' and that's when we start to set ourselves back with our mindset on physical activities. - Rob and Devon Download The OSF Workout Template Now!   Home Workouts You Can Do Today. Click here for the entire show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Sign up for either the Transition or next Sky Fit Challange Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset In this week's episode of the Open Sky Fitness Podcast, we will be discussing the differences between cardio and weight lifting plus which one is better for us as we age. How did we stu

Click here for the original show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset In this #TBT episode, Dr. Mike Israetel gets down and dirty with proper “weightlifting techniques“. First, you’ll hear from host Rob and his wife Devon on how to prevent and deal with generic shoulder and knee pain.  Then you’ll listen to Dr. Mike, professor of Exercise Science at Temple University, Head Science Consultant at  RenaissancePeriodization.com, and coauthor of the books, Scientific Principles of Strength Training and the Renaissance Diet.  He breaks down the specifics of a squat like you have never before heard.  You’ll learn how to bench press properly and hear why a weightlifting belt is a waste of money.

This week, we had an incredible interview with eco-entrepreneur, owner of Melody Productions, Director of the Food Heals Documentary, and co-host on The Food Heals Podcast, Allison Melody. Recently, both Devon and I were on her podcast for episode 199: The Secrets to Revolutionizing Your Workouts and Losing Weight Naturally and so we invited Allison to be on Open Sky Fitness to share her own incredible health journey. Click here for the entire show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset It took me 10 years to discover what worked for me and my health. This was not an overnight change; it was a lifestyle change and it took time. I slowly made discoveries about my health and I'm still making discoveries even today. I'm still ebbing, flowing, and changing when things aren't working for me. Some things work for a while but then I have to shift as I age and the food and production formulati

Dr. Kelly Starrett discusses preventing injuries, improving performance, and the best way to treat an injury. He is one of the founders of Mobility| WOD along with his wife, Juliet. He is also the author of both New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Becoming a Supple Leopard. He has also written Ready to Run and has an upcoming release of his latest book, Deskbound. Click here for the original show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset EASY WAYS TO PREVENT INJURIES AND IMPROVE PERFORMANCE Rob, Devon, and Kelly start of the show by discussing the natural occurrences of “normal accidents” in every day life such as lacking the right vitamins, nutrition, or technique when working out. By paying close attention,  we can take advantage of these “normal accident” patterns to learn about how to improve our individual athletic performance. The conversation delves deeper into speci

The constituents taken by food directly from the biological environment may have different effects from those formulated through technic, logic processing. Either way, the health benefits are likely to be determined by your total diet.- 'Food synergy: an operational concept for understanding nutrition' from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Click here for the entire show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset   Many of the members in our and participants in the have been very curious to know more about vitamin supplements so we have decided to put together this episode with all of the up-to-date information that's currently out there! Please know that these are just our recommendations and suggestions. Before making a decision about which vitamins and supplements you should or shouldn't take, always check in with your doctor first.   "You should always get as many nutrients as

Our society’s methods for losing weight are bonkers. Starvation diets, low-fat diets — none of them really work on an extended basis, and some of them could be making us sicker. Our #TBT guest this week is Jonathan Bailor who spent 10 years doing intensively researching the diets we try and why they tend to fail. Click here for the original show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset!  

"The key component to success in the physical competition world and often to health and transcending disease states are all related to your digestion. How well you can assimilate and utilize the food that you're eating; no matter what it is and how well you can eliminate any waste that will prevent it from growing bad bacteria in the gut. That's the bottom line; you have to get your digestion figured out." - Wade Lightheart   Click here for the entire show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset! On this week's episode of the Open Sky Fitness Podcast, we had 3-time All Natural National Bodybuilding Champion, Advisor to the American Anti-Cancer Institute, Director of Education at BiOptimizers Nutrition, Founder of the Prosperity & Health Alliance, and Enagic Master Trainer, Wade Lightheart, join us on the show. Wade is also a vegetarian and author of several best-selling books incl

There are a lot of different theories and beliefs around what causes our muscles to become sore and what helps or doesn’t help the pain go away. Muscle recovery and soreness has been a topic in the OSF Facebook group. On this week’s episode of Open Sky Fitness, Rob and Devon explain what Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) actually is, what might be the cause of it, and how to help your muscles recover Click here for the original show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group! Early sign up for our next 7 Day Paleo Reset!

This week, we brought back original OSF Podcast cast members, Alek Lev and Jeff Meacham back for the 200th episode! Now that Devon and I are expecting a baby girl soon, we wanted to talk to Jeff and Alek (who both have two children) about how they look after and raise their family.   Click here for the full show notes! Please leave us a review at openskyfitness.com/review  Join Our Open Sky Fitness Facebook Group! Sign up for the next 7 Day Paleo Reset!   Specifically, we'll be discussing the following in this episode: How Open Sky Fitness got its start with Rob, Jeff, and Alek. Generational Nutrition: how Jeff and Alek connect with food now compared to in the past when their parents made the rules. The struggles they still face from time to time with nutrition. What life is now like as parents and raising children. How they juggle their own health and their family's health What they do to share their own health philosophies and encourage healthy habits with their children. Sleep training hacks and other pa

On this week's TBT Open Sky Fitness Podcast episode, Rob had a great talk with Jay Campbell about testosterone replacement therapy. Jay the best selling author of The Definitive Testosterone Replacement Therapy MANual, a 16 year TRT patient and respected thought leader on Hormonal Optimization.   Check out the original show notes here! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Facebook Group here! Sign up for the next FREE 7 Day Paleo Reset.    Jay recently launched TRTRevolution.com and the TRT Revolution Podcast which promise to be the definitive resources for all things Testosterone, Anti-Aging and Life Optimization. Jay along with his mentor Jim Brown consult with aging men and women and soon will be offering a unique line of supplements (Optimized Life Nutrition) essential for living a hormonally balanced life. Rob and Jay had a deep discussion about why men can experience a loss of the testosterone hormone, what are the symptoms, and how to replace t

"The beauty of Keto from a lifestyle, intuitive, instinctive eating perspective is that you're much more in tune with what your body actually needs. When you eat carbohydrates, your insulin spikes and your glucose levels are all over the place not to mention your brain is triggered to eat more food even if your body doesn't necessarily need more food. Whereas with Keto, you're much more in line with your body and you have a much more stable baseline for your glucose and insulin so you know when you're hungry and you know when you're full and you're able to intuitively self-regulate how much you eat." - Robert Sikes    In this week's episode of the Open Sky Fitness Podcast, we had Natural, Pro Ketogenic Body Builder, Founder of Keto Savage, Creator of The Keto Brick, Author of Keto-Adapted Performance Manual, and the Host of the Keto Savage Podcast, Robert Sikes to talk about the Ketogenic diet, meal prepping, and how he's overcome various life obstacles. His mission is to help you apply the Keto Diet to you

Bodybuilding twins and international fitness stars Owen and Lewis Harrison have competed with each other from an early age. They’ve lived together, trained together and have even bought the same exercise supplements. These days, the Harrison twins seem to be everywhere, landing sponsorship deals with MyProtein, Body Engineers, and Vascular Wear. But they never set out to become bodybuilders. The duo was originally signed to the European football team the Bolton Wanderers; after Owen completed his service in the Royal Marine Corps, he and Lewis began training with greater dedication and realized it was something they could make their career.   Click here for the original show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Improve your nutrition with our 7 Day Paleo Reset! Reserve your spot now! Join our Open Sky Fitness Facebook Group!    

On this week’s podcast, we’ll be going over the popular debate going on about food combinations and whether or not this theory actually works. Many people believe that combining certain foods can help ease digestion. They think that food can have different digestive timings and you have to pay attention to that so that it does not hinder the digestion process. On the other hand, Devon and I have some different theories. We’ll be looking at both sides of the debate and go over the following: What various sources say about food combining and whether they think it’s legit or not. Different “food combining rules” – what we agree and disagree with. How certain food combinations actually help with nutrition absorption. When the best time to eat fruit is and when you shouldn’t eat it. What studies have found out about food combination principles and balanced nutrition for weight loss. Food combing and autoimmune disease. Why there’s no need for the alkaline diet. What other factors are beneficial to absorbing nutri

In this #TBT episode, we're sharing our episode on convenient foods and meal prep hacks! This is the perfect episode for you if you live a super crazy lifestyle, want to cook healthier for yourself and your family, or just want some healthy snack substitute ideas.  While we were manually renovating some apartments, we were incredibly busy and so these hacks really helped us stay healthy and keep up with our nutrition goals.  Click here for the original show notes! Please leave us a review at http://openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Podcast Group on Facebook! Sign up for the next Sky Fit Challenge starting April 23!

Internationally known Yoga and Ayurvedic Practitioner with a Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (B.A.M.S.) Degree Program in India, Author of The Yoga of Personal Development: Enlightened Lessons on Peak Performance, Leadership and Living A Life of No Regrets and the forthcoming book, The Yoga-Ayurveda Book of Anti-Aging Secrets, and Founder of Visionary Yoga, Mariko Hirakawa joins Rob to discuss what it means to live a lifestyle full of awareness. She's an enlightened individual who has studied Yoga for many, many years and has a great deal of knowledge and advice to share with all of us. As you listen, you will learn: What Ayurveda is and how can it benefit our wellness. The four traditional wisdom paths and background of Yoga. How practicing Yoga can help us discover where we belong when we feel lost. The questions she gives to people to help create movement in their lives. How we can feel more grounded and balanced via Yoga, meditation, and therapy in a such a fast-paced world. Devon and Rob als

It's important to build strength in the gym, but it’s even more important to take the time to recover afterward. In this episode, Devon and I will explain how to recover after a workout, why you build strong muscles as you recover, how to properly stretch to keep your muscles engaged, and how to recover with good sleep and nutrition. We also have a lot of information and advice to share about the common injuries that happen in your neck, back, and shoulders and how to heal them. We also took some time to answer questions from our listeners: How to heal hip pain from running? AND How can you improve your athletic ability when you’ve hit a plateau? Click here for the original show notes! Please leave us a review at www.openskyfitness.com/review Join our Open Sky Fitness Group on Facebook! Sign up for the next Sky Fit Challenge starting April 23!